Given name & surname
Letta
“one who brings joy to others”
Letta is a variant of Letitia. One Latin interpretation is “one who brings joy to others.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Letta is a variant of Letitia. One Latin interpretation is “one who brings joy to others.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Letta is a variant of Letitia. An origin associated with Letitia is Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Letta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 782
- 0 boys · 782 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,628 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,628 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 24 in 1971. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 323 as a first name in 2020; 132 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Letta’s family of names
Letta has a related form in Letitia. In English usage, Letta as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Λέτα. In Greek usage, Letta is a transliteration of Λέττα.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Letta
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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